Abdication in a sentence

According to Albanian Communist leader Enver Hoxha 's account of his conversations with the Romanian Communist leaders on the monarch's abdication, it was Gheorghiu-Dej, not Groza, who forced Michael's abdication at gunpoint.

And, most importantly, it is about the spectacular abdication of the government, of elected representatives.

At the beginning of the pontificate, Francis praised his predecessor’s decision to abdicate and suggested that abdication was an option for him.

But running a society purely for profit and efficiency, however productive of material wealth, is abdication of morality, and even on its own economic terms it is self-destructive, as we just experienced with the supply chain breakdown.

Over the seasons, it has been accused of suggesting infidelities by the queen and Prince Philip, portraying the current king as an unfaithful husband and even suggesting Charles’s desire for his mother’s abdication in the 1990s.

This generated a lot of brouhaha because some people are not happy with government’s abdication of its security responsibility to a private company owned by a suspected criminal while wondering what work would be left for other security agencies to do.

Good morning and welcome to MailOnline's liveblog covering the abdication of Queen Margrethe.

It’s an abdication of leadership.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson responded that leaving the question to the states was an alarming abdication of responsibility.

Like King Harald, however, she had earlier dismissed any prospect of abdication.

The queen will sign her formal abdication on 14 January at a state council - a meeting with the Danish government - making Frederik, 55, and his Australian-born wife Mary, 51, king and queen of Denmark.

The Supreme Court’s decision to shield Donald Trump from prosecution is a dangerous abdication of responsibility and a threat to the core values of American democracy.

This shared belief that being sovereign is a job for life, made this week’s abdication announcement - which came out of the blue - all the more surprising.

Thousands gathered on the streets of Copenhagen Sunday for a once-in-a-thousand-year event: the voluntary abdication of its queen.

Brigid Fowler, a senior researcher who is a highly respected expert on parliamentary processes, said it amounted to an “abdication of parliament’s constitutional responsibilities to deliver proper scrutiny of the executive and the law”.

It was here in the property's enormous two-storey living room that they held their council of war over Christmas, finalising their 'abdication' plan to effectively quit The Firm, move to North America and become financially independent.

Juan Carlos I reigned as king of Spain from November 1975 until his abdication in June 2014.

This is an abdication of responsibility for the health and wellness of the staff, students and Emory community at large.

Very far, according to publishing giant HarperCollins, which has brought forward by six weeks the U.S. publication of Anna Pasternak’s biography of Wallis Simpson, who caused the 1936 Abdication crisis.

It comes as Mr Corbyn has been accused of an "abdication of leadership" after signalling how he would campaign if there is a second referendum.